If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.

I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.

it's more interesting for me to stick things out anonymously. You get more of an honest reaction to what you've done.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.